Upate: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6896210.ece
The battle for Shawangai lasted several days. “They were ferocious fighters and we had to battle hard to capture the village,” Lieutenant-Colonel Inam Rashid, the commanding officer who led the assault, said. His men had killed some of the militants but many others had escaped. Bahaji’s fate was unknown.
Another officer said: “We do not know whether he was killed or fled.”
“Bahaji is a suspected member of a cell based in Hamburg, northern Germany, that was centred
around Mohammed Atta,
leader of the group that carried out the September 11 attacks on New York’s World Trade Centre, among other targets.
Bahaji is alleged by the FBI to have shared an apartment in Hamburg with Atta, and disappeared shortly before the attacks were carried out.
Burgos, who Spanish media report has not been seen by her family in Madrid since 2001, is the wife of Amer Azizi, a Moroccan sought for his suspected role in the March 2004 attacks on commuter trains in Madrid.
Azizi has been linked by Spanish investigators to members of the group that carried out the Madrid attacks and is considered to be one of al-Qaeda’s leaders in Europe.
“Sherwangi is an important centre for the foreign terrorists, in particular the Uzbeks. There are also Chechens and Arabs,” said General Khalid Rabbani, commander of 9th infantry division, which is operating in South Waziristan.”
By all means, close Guantanamo .. and let the brazen and brutal CIC keep dithering on vital support for our suffering military .. that’s the ticket .. /S
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